There is an interesting commentary on dataloss which I stumbled across
after reading some of the author's posts on Slashdot, and engaging him
in an email conversation. Interested readers may find it here:

  http://www.platypus.ro/content/entry.php?2001/December/04b

Some comments:

The author correctly points out that Freenet does not retain data
permenantly, but goes on to claim that we (specifically Oskar and I)
mislead people as to this fact.  

He also accuses me of bombarding him with emails in an effort to
intimidate him into silence. I have made our (rather heated) email
conversation available at http://www.octayne.com/tambreet.txt for anyone
who would like to decide whether this claim is accurate for themselves.
In the end he asked me to end the debate, which I did by adding him to
my procmail filter.

Either way, I hope this might spark some discussion around whether we
are in-fact misrepresenting any of Freenet's qualities, so that if our
methods of explaining the project are lacking in some way, we can
address the problem.

Ian.

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Ian Clarke                                        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project    http://freenetproject.org/
Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc.           http://www.uprizer.com/

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